A review by purplemuskogee
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan

dark slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I have really struggled to finish this one. It's written like a tale with many short chapters focusing on different generations of women in a family - the "old crone", the daughter with the magical scent, the daughter who is a giant... I found it well written, the translation is very smooth, but the content was incredibly disturbing and seemed gratuitous at times. There is a rape at every page or almost, murders, sexual assault of vulnerable people, and I am still not sure wbere the book was going. I found the writing interesting and the format original but it wasn't for me.

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